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The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Xaira And Other AI Startups Have Huge Week

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Xaira Therapeutics came out of stealth and announced it had secured more than $1 billion of committed capital from lead investors Arch Venture Partners and Foresite Capital — both of which jointly incubated the company — as well as several other big-name investors including Sequoia Capital and Lightspeed Venture Partners.

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Top 10 barriers to strategic IT success

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On the one hand, artificial intelligence has helped both technology departments and the business units to work better, faster, and cheaper. The State of the Tech Workforce 2024 report from nonprofit CompTIA , forecasts tech employment growth of 3.1% for this year, resulting in a net gain of more than 300,000 new jobs.

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IT leaders uplift women to fill tech talent gaps

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As companies scramble to find qualified IT talent, they are struggling to achieve greater female representation in their technology ranks, particularly in key areas such as software engineering and cybersecurity. There’s a stereotype of what security looks like, but the technical stuff is the easiest to pick up,” Lee says.

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AI touches everything, everywhere all at once at Disrupt

TechCrunch

Come and explore the rapidly expanding capabilities and potential of artificial intelligence, and dig into the science behind the deep tech, the products it powers and the ethical, social and legal challenges that come with it. It all starts at ground zero: the AI Stage — one of six new industry-specific stages this year.

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The ‘Great Retraining’: IT upskills for the future

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The latest piece in her reinvention story is Synchrony’s new Tech Apprenticeship for Artificial Intelligence, a full-time, 12-month program that balances on-the-job learning with instructor-led training, providing Chavarin with a pathway into one of the most coveted technology spaces despite her very nontraditional IT background.

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CarMax drives business value with GPT-3.5

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x natural language model on pilots before Microsoft’s well publicized $10 billion investment in the nonprofit at the outset of 2023. Customer security is critical for CarMax, Mohammad says. Artificial Intelligence, CIO 100, Digital Transformation In this early use case, the CarMax team employed GPT 3.5’s

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8 investors and founders highlight Valencia’s potential as a fintech and cybersecurity hub

TechCrunch

The city appears to be strong in areas such as travel, AI, cybersecurity, fintech, agritech, travel tech, biotech, sports tech, and VR. BIGBAN, a private nonprofit angel investor network based in Valencia, is building and developing one of the most dynamic and active investor communities in Spain. What’s their focus? What does it lack?

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